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summertime is here and flowers bloom but inside my ghostly heart there is only gloom because you're in love with my dreams when the doors are shut and the curtains are closed yet late at night i still yearn for you across the bay in this much too-large bed i lay desperately wishing you were ***** wait, no- that's not it i just wish that my side was the one on which you'd sit i want you to sleep in my bed i want to put him out of your head i want it to be my baby in your crib i want your third finger to wear my ring i want you to be able to give me your everything do you know what i want more than that? i want to erase him from existence i want to rub out the last five years like chalk from a chalkboard and start anew with you i want to pick up where we left off with you waiting patiently for me hanging on my every word as though they were the sweetest sounds you've heard like honeysuckle or roses or poppies or daisies but no you loved me too well guess what? i love you no past tense no "too" i love you everything i do every breath i take every time my hands shake every smile i wear oh, that's my cross to bear the ***** the banter, the banquets, the bands my darling dear, it's all for you don't you see? why can't you understand the part of my plan where five years just disappear this house is too big for only me (lonely me) i should be laying next to you but all i have is this green light i close my eyes but it's tattooed inside i wish i could put that thing out of my sight but when you're laying in his bed at least i still have my green light to give me solace at night lovely lady, i'll follow your lead i learned to do that in the war no matter how far you have my heart just promise to hold it dear and for the rest of my days i know i will have no fear
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Aug 30, 2017
Aug 30, 2017 at 7:01 PM UTC
a lover's lament.
summertime is here and flowers bloom but inside my ghostly heart there is only gloom because you're in love with my dreams when the doors are shut and the curtains are closed yet late at night i still yearn for you across the bay in this much too-large bed i lay desperately wishing you were ***** wait, no- that's not it i just wish that my side was the one on which you'd sit i want you to sleep in my bed i want to put him out of your head i want it to be my baby in your crib i want your third finger to wear my ring i want you to be able to give me your everything do you know what i want more than that? i want to erase him from existence i want to rub out the last five years like chalk from a chalkboard and start anew with you i want to pick up where we left off with you waiting patiently for me hanging on my every word as though they were the sweetest sounds you've heard like honeysuckle or roses or poppies or daisies but no you loved me too well guess what? i love you no past tense no "too" i love you everything i do every breath i take every time my hands shake every smile i wear oh, that's my cross to bear the ***** the banter, the banquets, the bands my darling dear, it's all for you don't you see? why can't you understand the part of my plan where five years just disappear this house is too big for only me (lonely me) i should be laying next to you but all i have is this green light i close my eyes but it's tattooed inside i wish i could put that thing out of my sight but when you're laying in his bed at least i still have my green light to give me solace at night lovely lady, i'll follow your lead i learned to do that in the war no matter how far you have my heart just promise to hold it dear and for the rest of my days i know i will have no fear
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You, upperclass, American feminist Will you please shut up about a sandwich? And comic book characters, supermodels Shut up about your first world problems And take a look somewhere, Where the idea of feminism Is actually needed Have you ever heard of an arranged marriage? It's common practice in other places, Right after puberty, as long as the ******* are there 11, 12, they don't really care See the life of a Nepali girl, lower-class, Lack of freedom Learn about the meaning Of the word kamlari Young Nepali slave girls Beaten and bruised, Not allowed to be ill Or *Jogini, Devadasis* Which are both from india Dedicated to a goddess at as young as as five To bring the family good fortune The tribes girl, forever ***** But with nightly visitors in her bed They're hoping for some of her luck To rub off on them Sumangali dalit girls Sold by their family For next to nothing, It's called "bonded labor" And is supposed to pay off debts But the trap is set The girl is caught And if the "bonded labor man" Feels she isn't of enough use Maybe she's been beaten or is a little too ill He sells her off to another man Supposedly to pay her hospital bill So yes, feminism is needed But not here you little heathen Shut up about your so called freedoms And help the ones so desperately need it
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 1:05 PM UTC
Feminism (kind of a rant)
******* child born from ***** parents ***** female dog, wolf, etc. Men are called ******** and women are called ******* So with that in mind- I’ll put this into verse and rhyme. There was a ******* named Bill, who would walk His ***** named Jill. Now she would love to lay or play And this would go on every day. Then when his ***** would go into heat He would give his ***** a treat. He would allow her to put her scent all over town So that the others would know that she’s around. Now Bill being a fatherless child- would sit around and laugh awhile. (With the definition of these words being known)    I must ask this! Why would you put your ***** on the street? When there are so many others she’s bound to meet. She will leave you in a flash, because she doesn’t need Anyone to wipe her *** there has to be a line of respect don't you know this yet ? YOU are fatherless and what are you about to do Is creating a litter just like you. So why do we use these words as profanity? That is not the way it was meant to be! HA HA     ENJOY YOUR DAY
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 12:24 PM UTC
misuse of words
Which Is Greater? I break a vow. A serious vow. In a place, in this site, Where the fluid pain Is the water of the world, The element that is crux, The amniotic liquor of creative flux, The morning juice, The afternoon caffe, The first beer of the day, The liquid that we rinse and spit out our every day, I will write about pain, Arrogantly, as if there is any unused combination of Letters, vowels and consonants left unspoken, ***** Having sworn not to, for pain is cumulative. Asking myself, Which is greater? The pain of creation, inception, origination and birth, The pain of  wreck and ruin, destruction and death. Homework Self-Assignment: Compare and Contrast Suddenly, I am expert. Creating a poem a day is very painful. A poem that is the sum of Reflection, research, and purging. Once I wrote: *The poem is the afterbirth, A conflicts resolution, an outcome, Battlefield debris, the residue of An exacting vision, a sentiment surging, And your army of words, inadequate to the task, Fighting to capture that insight flashed, Each word a soldier, disheveled, Crying, let me live, let me be saved, Let me make a poem, Let it be inscribed upon my victorious flag. The poem is the sweat left upon the brow, Having exercised the five senses, The salt of struggle and debate, It's completion, each word, Both a victory and a defeat.* Suddenly, I am  expert. My mother is dying. It is a process. Days pass, She neither eats or drinks, Yet she lives on. I watch each labored exhalation, A subtraction, a countdown, It is as if she was returning each singular day, Every word e're spoke, every dream dreamt, she ever possessed to the atmosphere, One breath at a time. Is that painful? It is for me. Now you complain. They're different, not to be compared, et cetera. Pain is pain, Whether it is in the service of creation, or Creative destruction. Once I wrote: *With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poem's birth diminishes me.* So, one and the same? Nope. Yes. But. Cannot one be the greater? Yes, one is greater. When I lay on my deathbed, I will exhale the answer Into the atmosphere For your retrieval.
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Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 7:06 PM UTC
Which Is Greater? (July 2013)
Which Is Greater? I break a vow. A serious vow. In a place, in this site, Where the fluid pain Is the water of the world, The element that is crux, The amniotic liquor of creative flux, The morning juice, The afternoon caffe, The first beer of the day, The liquid that we rinse and spit out our every day, I will write about pain, Arrogantly, as if there is any unused combination of Letters, vowels and consonants left unspoken, ***** Having sworn not to, for pain is cumulative. Asking myself, Which is greater? The pain of creation, inception, origination and birth, The pain of  wreck and ruin, destruction and death. Homework Self-Assignment: Compare and Contrast Suddenly, I am expert. Creating a poem a day is very painful. A poem that is the sum of Reflection, research, and purging. Once I wrote: *The poem is the afterbirth, A conflicts resolution, an outcome, Battlefield debris, the residue of An exacting vision, a sentiment surging, And your army of words, inadequate to the task, Fighting to capture that insight flashed, Each word a soldier, disheveled, Crying, let me live, let me be saved, Let me make a poem, Let it be inscribed upon my victorious flag. The poem is the sweat left upon the brow, Having exercised the five senses, The salt of struggle and debate, It's completion, each word, Both a victory and a defeat.* Suddenly, I am  expert. My mother is dying. It is a process. Days pass, She neither eats or drinks, Yet she lives on. I watch each labored exhalation, A subtraction, a countdown, It is as if she was returning each singular day, Every word e're spoke, every dream dreamt, she ever possessed to the atmosphere, One breath at a time. Is that painful? It is for me. Now you complain. They're different, not to be compared, et cetera. Pain is pain, Whether it is in the service of creation, or Creative destruction. Once I wrote: *With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poem's birth diminishes me.* So, one and the same? Nope. Yes. But. Cannot one be the greater? Yes, one is greater. When I lay on my deathbed, I will exhale the answer Into the atmosphere For your retrieval.
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Grandma's hands clapped in church on Sunday morning. Grandma's hands played the tambourine so well. Grandma's hands used to issue out a warning, She'd say, “Billy don't you run so fast, Might fall on a piece of glass, Might be snaked there in that grass,” Grandma's hands Grandma's hands sooth the local ***** mother Grandma's hands used to ache sometimes and swell Grandma's hands used to lift her face and tell her, She'd say, “Baby Grandma understands, That you really loved that man, Put yourself in Jesus' hands.” Grandma's Hands Grandma's hands used to hand me piece of candy. Grandma's hands picked me up each time I fell. Grandma's hands, boy the really came in handy She'd say, “ Mattie don't you whip that boy. What you want to spank him for? He didn't drop no apple core,” But I don't have Grandma anymore, If I get to heaven I'll look for Grandma's hands.
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 6:56 AM UTC
Grandma's Hands - Bill Withers
I wonder 'oo and wot 'e was, That 'Un I got so slick. I couldn't see 'is face because The night was 'ideous thick. I just made out among the black A blinkin' wedge o' white; Then biff! I guess I got 'im crack -- The man I killed last night. I wonder if account o' me Some ***** will go ***** And 'eaps o' lives will never be, Because 'e's stark and dead? Or if 'is missis damns the war, And by some candle light, Tow-headed kids are prayin' for The Fritz I copped last night. I wonder, 'struth, I wonder why I 'ad that 'orful dream? I saw up in the giddy sky The gates o' God agleam; I saw the gates o' 'eaven shine Wiv everlastin' light: And then . . . I knew that I'd got mine, As 'e got 'is last night. Aye, bang beyond the broodin' mists Where spawn the mother stars, I 'ammered wiv me ****** fists Upon them golden bars; I 'ammered till a devil's doubt Fair froze me wiv affright: To fink wot God would say about The bloke I corpsed last night. I 'ushed; I wilted wiv despair, When, like a rosy flame, I sees a angel standin' there 'Oo calls me by me name. 'E 'ad such soft, such shiny eyes; 'E 'eld 'is 'and and smiled; And through the gates o' Paradise 'E led me like a child. 'E led me by them golden palms Wot 'ems that jeweled street; And seraphs was a-singin' psalms, You've no ideer 'ow sweet; Wiv cheroobs crowdin' closer round Than peas is in a pod, 'E led me to a shiny mound Where beams the throne o' God. And then I 'ears God's werry voice: "Bill 'agan, 'ave no fear. Stand up and glory and rejoice For 'im 'oo led you 'ere." And in a nip I seemed to see: Aye, like a flash o' light, My angel pal I knew to be The chap I plugged last night. Now, I don't claim to understand -- They calls me Bonehead Bill; They shoves a rifle in me 'and, And show me 'ow to **** Me job's to risk me life and limb, But . . . be it wrong or right, This cross I'm makin', it's for 'im, The cove I croaked last night.
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Bonehead Bill
I wonder 'oo and wot 'e was, That 'Un I got so slick. I couldn't see 'is face because The night was 'ideous thick. I just made out among the black A blinkin' wedge o' white; Then biff! I guess I got 'im crack -- The man I killed last night. I wonder if account o' me Some ***** will go ***** And 'eaps o' lives will never be, Because 'e's stark and dead? Or if 'is missis damns the war, And by some candle light, Tow-headed kids are prayin' for The Fritz I copped last night. I wonder, 'struth, I wonder why I 'ad that 'orful dream? I saw up in the giddy sky The gates o' God agleam; I saw the gates o' 'eaven shine Wiv everlastin' light: And then . . . I knew that I'd got mine, As 'e got 'is last night. Aye, bang beyond the broodin' mists Where spawn the mother stars, I 'ammered wiv me ****** fists Upon them golden bars; I 'ammered till a devil's doubt Fair froze me wiv affright: To fink wot God would say about The bloke I corpsed last night. I 'ushed; I wilted wiv despair, When, like a rosy flame, I sees a angel standin' there 'Oo calls me by me name. 'E 'ad such soft, such shiny eyes; 'E 'eld 'is 'and and smiled; And through the gates o' Paradise 'E led me like a child. 'E led me by them golden palms Wot 'ems that jeweled street; And seraphs was a-singin' psalms, You've no ideer 'ow sweet; Wiv cheroobs crowdin' closer round Than peas is in a pod, 'E led me to a shiny mound Where beams the throne o' God. And then I 'ears God's werry voice: "Bill 'agan, 'ave no fear. Stand up and glory and rejoice For 'im 'oo led you 'ere." And in a nip I seemed to see: Aye, like a flash o' light, My angel pal I knew to be The chap I plugged last night. Now, I don't claim to understand -- They calls me Bonehead Bill; They shoves a rifle in me 'and, And show me 'ow to **** Me job's to risk me life and limb, But . . . be it wrong or right, This cross I'm makin', it's for 'im, The cove I croaked last night.
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A pregnant lass with eyes of glass has never learned to cope. Once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope - She casts the Curse, the Holy Verse, and shoots a shot of dope, And stalks discreet Asylum Street her daily horoscope - The stray was struck by random truck which was her only hope. Well, Banjo Boy, with little joy, he strums her life entire: “The wayward waif was never safe; her stars were dark and dire. Born midst the rues and avenues where lack and want aspire Where no one heeds the childish needs that little ones require; Where faith survives in tempest lives, a swirl within the briar, Infinity grinds as time unwinds, until the winds expire. Her last caprice? The final peace that no one could deny her - Whipped by the flood, stray beads of blood are spattered on the spire; Though beads of sweat are cool and wet, cold clotted blood is dryer.” Though broken there, she’s fled the snare with dying thoughts serene. And now she’s dead, the rumours spread:  “her age? a sweet 16, With child, ***** her soul dyed red, her body so unclean.” A place is sought where she can rot, avoiding churchyard scenes, In limey pits, as well befits, behind forbidding screens; And all the while a dirge is styled on tattered tambourines Which echo through the human zoo in valleys of the Queens. Without rejoice, in hissing voice, near soil that’s seldom trod “In pious role, God bless my soul”, was mouthed with mitred nod, Neath scarlet trim with black, and grim, behind a robed facade - “She’ll burn in hell and sulphur smell”, spat Priest and man of god. Well, angels sweet with cloven feet, they sing in girl’s attire, But Banjo Boy, he’s playing coy while chanting in the choir: “The clueless search within the church to find what they desire - Beyond the nave, a gravelled grave, the final Rectifier” And when he’s through, without ado, he stacks some stones nearby her.
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 8:07 AM UTC
A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass has never learned to cope. Once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope - She casts the Curse, the Holy Verse, and shoots a shot of dope, And stalks discreet Asylum Street her daily horoscope - The stray was struck by random truck which was her only hope. Well, Banjo Boy, with little joy, he strums her life entire: “The wayward waif was never safe; her stars were dark and dire. Born midst the rues and avenues where lack and want aspire Where no one heeds the childish needs that little ones require; Where faith survives in tempest lives, a swirl within the briar, Infinity grinds as time unwinds, until the winds expire. Her last caprice? The final peace that no one could deny her - Whipped by the flood, stray beads of blood are spattered on the spire; Though beads of sweat are cool and wet, cold clotted blood is dryer.” Though broken there, she’s fled the snare with dying thoughts serene. And now she’s dead, the rumours spread:  “her age? a sweet 16, With child, ***** her soul dyed red, her body so unclean.” A place is sought where she can rot, avoiding churchyard scenes, In limey pits, as well befits, behind forbidding screens; And all the while a dirge is styled on tattered tambourines Which echo through the human zoo in valleys of the Queens. Without rejoice, in hissing voice, near soil that’s seldom trod “In pious role, God bless my soul”, was mouthed with mitred nod, Neath scarlet trim with black, and grim, behind a robed facade - “She’ll burn in hell and sulphur smell”, spat Priest and man of god. Well, angels sweet with cloven feet, they sing in girl’s attire, But Banjo Boy, he’s playing coy while chanting in the choir: “The clueless search within the church to find what they desire - Beyond the nave, a gravelled grave, the final Rectifier” And when he’s through, without ado, he stacks some stones nearby her.
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we're such a benevolent lot we give the Welfare set our hard won dough they sit on their ***** and do not a thing while we're out working for a wage but our kindnesses are being exploited by the dole collectors those ***** mothers having broods of kids and we hand them our toiling quids those kids should be supported by their daddies let them get a job and become responsible for their sprog the Welfare system is getting plundered every day by those who won't get out and earn their pay how nice our honey *** has been taken for granted and bled of its generosity
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 7:25 PM UTC
Generous Taxpayers
poeter poetess poetee I must profess there's more and more with less and less implore explore impress express ignore deplore digress obsess undress unless ogress poeti poeted the only thought inside your head your life is fraught with constant dread the dreams you sought all dead all dead ***** unread unsaid poeto poetum no fee no fi Jack run run run oh me oh my another one won't satisfy don't be no fun! poem poem poem ©2012 Lyn
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 4:54 PM UTC
poem
( Written as a rejoinder to my friend's poem: "Poem written to a buxom young Lady") You’re very tall And painfully thin. Your bust and waist the same. Your voice is high and pitchy. To hear it causes pain. Your wardrobe, much like Superman’s, lacks all variety. You’re an unfit ***** mother you’ve neglected poor sweetpea. Yet two men battle over you. It strikes me a little strange.- but in your cartoon universe You are the only game. I think I’d side with Whimpy And watch the others fight. I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger tonight.
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May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012 at 11:18 AM UTC
An Ode to Olive Oyl
America needs a poor, ***** mother for president. We need a Muslim for vice president and a feminist to lead the army. America needs a homeless man with no health insurance and AIDS to allocate food stamps, gays to run the senate, and lesbians to run the house. America needs a president who’s been shot at, ***** and ****** on his whole life. A person who has held their dying child, losing a battle that cancer has already won, buried up to the knees hospital bills. America should be run by a person that wakes up every morning with no heat or air conditioner. Who has fought in a war, shakes in the night, and lives on minimum wage. Someone who takes the bus,  the subway, and owns one pair of sneakers, There is no time or money for anything else. We need an inner city teacher for president. Someone who spends 4 hours on Sundays preaching for president, Just to go home and put on his wife's dress. America needs a straight talker and a street walker to head the FBI. An illegal for the CIA, And a transgender for the DOJ. But that will never happen. What I have realized is that there is no longer a distinction between what is right, and what is real. Real, is a leader is one that has been to the free clinic, waited in line at the DMV, and buys clothes from Walmart. Real, is a president that is no stranger to violence. A vice president who has been to county. That has been fed jail food, strip searched, and wasted years that they will never get back. We, the people do not fly around in private jets, Puffing on Cuban cigars. We, the people do not solely consist of old, rich men, Making decisions for young, poor women. Telling us what we can and can’t do. Who we can and can’t love. Widening the gap between the haves and haves nots.   We the people know hard work, We know blood, We know sweat, We know tears, But what we do not know, Is how to engage ourselves in the goings on in the world around us. Take responsibility, hold your own, and question everything.
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Mar 20, 2014
Mar 20, 2014 at 6:31 PM UTC
We the Sheeple
America needs a poor, ***** mother for president. We need a Muslim for vice president and a feminist to lead the army. America needs a homeless man with no health insurance and AIDS to allocate food stamps, gays to run the senate, and lesbians to run the house. America needs a president who’s been shot at, ***** and ****** on his whole life. A person who has held their dying child, losing a battle that cancer has already won, buried up to the knees hospital bills. America should be run by a person that wakes up every morning with no heat or air conditioner. Who has fought in a war, shakes in the night, and lives on minimum wage. Someone who takes the bus,  the subway, and owns one pair of sneakers, There is no time or money for anything else. We need an inner city teacher for president. Someone who spends 4 hours on Sundays preaching for president, Just to go home and put on his wife's dress. America needs a straight talker and a street walker to head the FBI. An illegal for the CIA, And a transgender for the DOJ. But that will never happen. What I have realized is that there is no longer a distinction between what is right, and what is real. Real, is a leader is one that has been to the free clinic, waited in line at the DMV, and buys clothes from Walmart. Real, is a president that is no stranger to violence. A vice president who has been to county. That has been fed jail food, strip searched, and wasted years that they will never get back. We, the people do not fly around in private jets, Puffing on Cuban cigars. We, the people do not solely consist of old, rich men, Making decisions for young, poor women. Telling us what we can and can’t do. Who we can and can’t love. Widening the gap between the haves and haves nots.   We the people know hard work, We know blood, We know sweat, We know tears, But what we do not know, Is how to engage ourselves in the goings on in the world around us. Take responsibility, hold your own, and question everything.
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_For as the curtain rises, So too the curtain falls, No accolades, no entourage, No 'Brava!', no applause. An unrehearsed performance, By a monodramatist, A solo show, a pantomime, An improvised burlesque. Critics stand in groups debating, The value of my work, They gossip in the aisles, The playhouse now a kirk. My eulogy their invention, My obituary the prize, The best review I've ever had, A mix of humour and soft lies. I have played the loving daughter, The honest aunt ***** The independent sister, The true and loyal friend. The sympathetic neighbour, I have played the errant niece, The mentor, guide, and confidant, The ***** and the tease. In truth, I am a diva, Living mostly in her head, But this remains unmentioned, In a tribute to the dead. Once rose bouquets beribboned, From the greatest and the good, Now a solitary arrangement, On a coffin made of wood. For as the curtain rises, So too the curtain falls, No accolades, no entourage, No garlands, no applause. But wait, I see my error, As indeed these things exist, But not for me to comment on, Nor as I would have wished. For my aspect is fair frozen, I cannot turn the page, My performance has now ended, And I have left the stage._
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Sep 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020 at 3:51 AM UTC
Theatrum Mundi
I'll miss the day we were crawling down main-street at 4 a.m after we slept in the guest house and danced to CCR. Tossing our beer cans in the neighbor's trash, and singing with every molecule of our bodies at the passing train that deafened us from 20 feet away. We ran wild beneath the overpass, climbing the engines lying dormant on the tracks, pretending we could fuel them up ride across the nation in a rusted box car write our names between the colors of illegible graffiti and shout against the wind as we rolled through the hills. And what a shame we didn't chase that passing train the way we could have. What a shame we didn't let it carry us away with nothing but our flannel jackets and cut off shorts, the lighter in my pocket, and the thirst for a nice adventure. We sauntered back to the diner, exhausted by the scenery and faces, our buzzes vanishing to the neon signs of bars, seven bars on one street, and the smell of coffee as the elderly hobbled in with the morning paper clutched between arthritic fingers. Tomorrow, and everyday after, a train will pass through town at 4:45 a.m. and I can hop on the caboose any day I desire. Each birthday slithers by, flicking it's tongue in my direction, tasting my youth. And I glance again at the disintegrating old man sitting alone in the window booth wearing the face of a jailed old bird with clipped wings and the grievous expression of an ***** gent. He would pass one day, leaving a dusty, crumbling shanty to his children, a box of crinkled newspaper clippings full of obituaries, and an empty seat in the booth by the window, where someday I will collapse in the a.m. take my coffee black and cut my husband's name from the paper, wishing I was on that train shedding this loose blotchy skin for the rough hands I had the day I chased the engine to the edge of town and regretted the moment that I turned around and came home.
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 5:44 AM UTC
I'll unchain myself one day. (A personal little rant about this sinkhole we call home)
I'll miss the day we were crawling down main-street at 4 a.m after we slept in the guest house and danced to CCR. Tossing our beer cans in the neighbor's trash, and singing with every molecule of our bodies at the passing train that deafened us from 20 feet away. We ran wild beneath the overpass, climbing the engines lying dormant on the tracks, pretending we could fuel them up ride across the nation in a rusted box car write our names between the colors of illegible graffiti and shout against the wind as we rolled through the hills. And what a shame we didn't chase that passing train the way we could have. What a shame we didn't let it carry us away with nothing but our flannel jackets and cut off shorts, the lighter in my pocket, and the thirst for a nice adventure. We sauntered back to the diner, exhausted by the scenery and faces, our buzzes vanishing to the neon signs of bars, seven bars on one street, and the smell of coffee as the elderly hobbled in with the morning paper clutched between arthritic fingers. Tomorrow, and everyday after, a train will pass through town at 4:45 a.m. and I can hop on the caboose any day I desire. Each birthday slithers by, flicking it's tongue in my direction, tasting my youth. And I glance again at the disintegrating old man sitting alone in the window booth wearing the face of a jailed old bird with clipped wings and the grievous expression of an ***** gent. He would pass one day, leaving a dusty, crumbling shanty to his children, a box of crinkled newspaper clippings full of obituaries, and an empty seat in the booth by the window, where someday I will collapse in the a.m. take my coffee black and cut my husband's name from the paper, wishing I was on that train shedding this loose blotchy skin for the rough hands I had the day I chased the engine to the edge of town and regretted the moment that I turned around and came home.
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***** or something in between left in humming office space limbo. You're no fun at all when the USB is USE'd up with ease. White mouse tail rendered down the pilot of my palm and left me with paranoia disease. Natural glow, vanished visage unnaturally slow, famished instance ebb and flow, iambic finish fail to show the lavish grimace.
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 7:05 PM UTC
Modernity
I close my eyes and the world drops dead the cold pierces my skin with sharp lead. And your words hit me with a slam and all I did was just bled and bled It was all just made up in our heads. The sheets that once laid across OUR bed Now just contain one of each and my arms reach for you, outspread. I ponder and question why did you stop and fled Why couldn’t we just understood after all that misread and misled. Now my fingers crawl and they tread on the loose threads All there is to do is to hope and to look ahead and miss the unsaid.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 1:09 PM UTC
*****
I've listened to their speeches. Read their termite riddled planks. They're unlikely to dethrone Barrack- A pity, Mitt is no Tom Hanks. They are out of touch with women, unsympathetic to the poor. They're still fighting social issues that were decided years before. For a party of small government, They sure have a lot to say about *** in America among the ***** and the gay. The Democrats, by contrast, Hit all the right social notes; Indeed, they will say anything if it will buy them votes. Then, when we hit the fiscal cliff, The Obamas living large, I'm sure he'll find some Bush to blame as long as he's in charge. Election Day is coming soon, Both parties seek my love. Alas, my favorite candidate is None of the Above.
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Aug 29, 2012
Aug 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM UTC
None of the Above (Political)
“A lovely moon tonight” she said. “It’s the same moon it was last night” he said. “It looks slightly different somehow” she said. “It’s exactly the same ****** moon” he said. “I think it’s fuller tonight” she said. “Of course it’s fuller tonight” he said. “It’s brighter and gayer tonight” she said. “The moon is no gayer tonight” he said. “It seemed so sad last night” she said. “How could the moon seem sad?” he said.       “The moon dies every night” she said.       “And ferries the souls of the recently dead,         Into the darkness just out of reach         It circles the globe unseen and *****           It pries open the sky at evening’s breach The moon has been reborn” she said. He gave her a look of scorn and dread “What’s gotten into your head?” “A lovely moon tonight” she said.
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Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014 at 4:25 PM UTC
A Lovely Moon Tonight
Swaying hair. Brown wisps Placating, Floating, Caressing. The tiniest tinges of amber Soft, soapy, strawberry Little pints of pink Swelling Apple eyes Blueberry skies Brown, flickering Fluttering eyelashes Worn out pages Crumpled copies Crinkled, sprinkled, twinkled. Swaying peach Floating free Specks of a lit red Snowflakes Coffees and Biro Pens Messy scrawl and hasty chatter ***** nails, lips bare Ears akin, smiles are not within Late nights of films and English homework Tattered textbooks, damp. Gentle lift Small, precise. Danity and weighty Nails afloat, teeth sunk in Lips still bare Eighteen. Ribbons Twisted Eyebrows Bare lipped frown Fear strikes Brown wisps Flicks of red Pints of pink Tattered copies of her death. Unseen.
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Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 1:54 PM UTC
Eighteen
What a special day I had today. So special, and it was not even mine. The sun was warming. It was God's wind blowing. And for once, we all were there, and all our love was showing. And the children in the day, they were laughing, having fun. And everyone was smiling. It was all I ever I wanted, and it was not even mine. My sister. It was her day. And yet the sun could almost die, but for the radiant Patricia could keep any heart alive. Immaculate, in white and lace. Enchanting. Captivating. The gods above did fall in love, but she shall keep them waiting. Her husband. It was his day. He thanked us just because, we were who we were, and he was who he was. He was genuine in his embrace. Sincere in his smile. There beside my sister, he seemed to strike a certain style. I knew they would be happy. This love will last forever. I could feel it in my heart, and it was not even mine. I saw my mother. She was smiling with a tear. My father sighed and shook his head, perhaps somewhere in yesteryear. Here, witnessing the true event of what pain and sacrifice are meant. Knowing in some way she's leaving. But, in marriage, true believing. I wanted to laugh as well as cry, and it was not even mine. My sisters. They all did contest. Competing with the bride. Resplendent. They did look their best, I still cannot decide, if it was they that looked more beautiful or more the day and all the view. And as I looked around at wide-eyed guests, I knew that they did wonder, too. My brothers. All so strong and cool. Among the guests, so sure to fool. Of four, three of us still ***** We swear those words will not be said! We congratulate. We poke and jibe. And yet we keep the truth inside. We stop and think about our day. We dream. We hope its something like today. I dream and sigh, and want today, though it was not even mine. As we gathered for the photograph I began to see my flaw. This day that I had wanted, it was no ones day at all. For days that are this beautiful, and this loving, I have learned, are only lent to us by God, and soon must be returned. But we can take from it our memories, and our dreams and friendships, too. Patricia and Mike will take each other, and a love that lives anew.
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May 30, 2016
May 30, 2016 at 7:31 AM UTC
A Special Day
What a special day I had today. So special, and it was not even mine. The sun was warming. It was God's wind blowing. And for once, we all were there, and all our love was showing. And the children in the day, they were laughing, having fun. And everyone was smiling. It was all I ever I wanted, and it was not even mine. My sister. It was her day. And yet the sun could almost die, but for the radiant Patricia could keep any heart alive. Immaculate, in white and lace. Enchanting. Captivating. The gods above did fall in love, but she shall keep them waiting. Her husband. It was his day. He thanked us just because, we were who we were, and he was who he was. He was genuine in his embrace. Sincere in his smile. There beside my sister, he seemed to strike a certain style. I knew they would be happy. This love will last forever. I could feel it in my heart, and it was not even mine. I saw my mother. She was smiling with a tear. My father sighed and shook his head, perhaps somewhere in yesteryear. Here, witnessing the true event of what pain and sacrifice are meant. Knowing in some way she's leaving. But, in marriage, true believing. I wanted to laugh as well as cry, and it was not even mine. My sisters. They all did contest. Competing with the bride. Resplendent. They did look their best, I still cannot decide, if it was they that looked more beautiful or more the day and all the view. And as I looked around at wide-eyed guests, I knew that they did wonder, too. My brothers. All so strong and cool. Among the guests, so sure to fool. Of four, three of us still ***** We swear those words will not be said! We congratulate. We poke and jibe. And yet we keep the truth inside. We stop and think about our day. We dream. We hope its something like today. I dream and sigh, and want today, though it was not even mine. As we gathered for the photograph I began to see my flaw. This day that I had wanted, it was no ones day at all. For days that are this beautiful, and this loving, I have learned, are only lent to us by God, and soon must be returned. But we can take from it our memories, and our dreams and friendships, too. Patricia and Mike will take each other, and a love that lives anew.
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Colloquial examples of passion Smoke rising lazily off the trembling waters Skin soaked with the ethereal dreams of a thousand lifetimes When I awoke, the night a moonless construct of infamy Dreams are hungry, the nightmares seek Artful expression which crashes downwards The many beatings of a heart Cold and scared A smattering of thoughts Void and ***** Callously sold to the empty hands of yesteryear In corrupted frame, coiled rage Another image bound and bled New notes left unfettered or fed Pulchritudinous, what was once a face Since traded, since displaced Hollow and ashen Soul sacrificed to make space Elements of fire and air Clashing internally Fluid motions, beckoning out to the few Clutch thy mystic purse Burn said embers anew Dearest hollow, the waters tremble The cold dark sings as the bonfire waivers Bide your strength, close ashen eyes Sip from holy estus Summon or head on Push through the fog wall, Prepare to die
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Apr 14, 2016
Apr 14, 2016 at 3:17 PM UTC
Dark Souls
Lost I have found Chords of Pathways Home Again Confusion of Disconnection Swimming In a Fish bowl of Empty Desire With the Worlds Eyes A Peering Landscape   Dissecting Innocence Of Youths Dreams.. Offered escape By an Eagles Beak Of Death I choose it And saw the World In the blessings Of Its Beauty Children on playgrounds That I never had Lovers in friendships That I knew awaited Revealings of Gods Word I was ever called To say Heart Lifting Beauty People from everywhere Majesty of Life The Grace and Joy Of Goodness ........ Pergemome Loves Hope Unjudged   True Wealth Once Held Suddenly Taken Family God Ministers Robe Decisions Stole Mind My Beloved Freedom My Lover I seek For this Walk Gods Heaven This Earth Life Sharing Minds Eye It is that which I seek Home Again One Voice One Heart Wonder That I Am Blessed Courage.. Faith Lifes Eternity Joy, Loves  Eternity Bliss ....My Brother Called.. His name was Sorrow They called him Satan His Love A Mothers Love It is She Who Sits with Him To Know Faith His Fathers Coming My Brothers Hand Lifted Vietnam                          He Cried Forgotten And Unknown A Homeless Boy A n Unbirthed Man Creator of Life With Song ***** His Rememberance Now Reclaimed Presence Volunteer, Innocence Of The Yes Murdered Creation ***** Indignity A Prison Of Unbecoming Our Tears His Witnessing And Freedom Absolved of Knowing Victory Meant more Than Life For No One
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May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016 at 12:08 PM UTC
Guitar Strings
A boy and a girl Laying in bed Ever so sweetly Touching is their heads They confess their love True soul mates they are And swear never to leave Whether too close or too far The girl looks at the boy And says why can't we wed The boy replies money is the reason Theyre ***** in this bed The boy has an idea One that will make her blush And show her she is more Than just a childhood crush The boy goes into his closet Brings back a piece of string Cuts a sliver off and says "can this be your ring" And in that moment Where magic danced in the night They became newly weds As he tied the string on tight
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 5:53 PM UTC
A boy and A Girl
The life has left her eyes her body, has left its ties no matter the cries His life has ended with the saddest demise Floor stained red thoughts rush to her head The darkness spreads Herself left *****
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 12:06 PM UTC
Gone